Posted 09 September 2009

The Latest VidZone Exclusive: Editors

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We have a big update coming later in the week but if that was the cake, then this is a massive, sweet, juicy, indie band shaped cherry on the top… I for one am pretty excited about this one, being a big fan myself. I hope you are as excited as me…Details follow… Enjoy!

The music video for Editors’ new single ‘Papillon’ will be available exclusively as a European premiere only on VidZone for PlayStation 3 from Thursday 10th September at 15:00BST.

‘Papillon’ is the lead single from Editors’ forthcoming album, ‘In This Light And On This Evening’, which sees the band pushing their sound into a wholly new territory. Following the huge successes of début album ‘The Back Room’ and the Number One follow up ‘An End Has A Start’, all four members were keen to make a far more electronic record, whilst still being determined to ‘give the machines a human feel’ in the words of lead singer Tom Smith.

The video was created by award winning film director Andrew Douglas, part of The Douglas Brothers who work at the threshold of art and commercial photography

As always let me know what you think and I will be back shortly with more exciting news.

Vidzone feels as clumsy as the very first PlayStation Store, html and flash based monstrosity. I remember reading it’s the work of only two people. They need assistance.

I struggle to use it efficiently, constantly going back and forth. It handled all the content better I would demo it to my parents and a few relatives and they purchase one immediately. Same with the web based iPlayer.

I can assure there are more than two people here working on this project, if i can get us all in one photo i will postit on the Twitter as proof. Sorry to hear you have issues with the service, we have been taking everyones comments on board and we are striving to make the service as good as it can be and will be releasing updates to the service frequently with improvements and enhancements. Any comments you have please email to ps-contact@vidzine.tv

ace sounds great i love vidzone . i have one little niggle tho just lately the ads keep appering after each video or sumtimes when i skip a song its becoming annoying im sick of seeing IL-2 Sturmovik cannot u make em ever half hour or summat instead after each video :)

I really hope we (can) “get” her, soon :) I need all of her great videos and hopefully some special-things… like video-premieres or live-snippets or whatever …

…and of course: other great artists from that label, too! ;)

And one more thing: (Well, actually three) I hope there will be 16:9 support and the possibility of HQ-Vids someday, too. And please… we (german) have one commercial between each video – that’s worse than viva oder mtv – nothing against commercials, but that’s too much… especially because it’s always the same nokia-spot!

What about a shuffle-function – throught all the videos you have!? Do you guys thinking about that?

I love VIDZONE :D And if Madonna will enter VIDZONE: I will be there – everyday ;)

This is a bug, we truly apologise for this one as we know it can get REALLY annoying. We would never intentionally have an advert more than every 15 mins and we have a fix for it coming very shortly so please bear with us.

As someone who was growing up at the time of the original release of Up the Junction by Squeeze, I was idly trawling around VidZone I spotted Squeeze in the Artist list and Up the Junction as one of their songs, so I started playing it and realised that it was the first time that I had ever seen the video for it. And given that I don’t watch music channels on TV, I would probably have gone the rest of my life without seeing it.

Its not a remarkable video by any stretch of the imagination, but just a piece of my youth that I didn’t see then and would probably never have seen in the future.

Sorry, another question (which I’ve emailed you guys about), would be good to know if others have been experiencing this:

Was going through my playlist the other day and decided to delete one of the videos from it. Went through the normal procedure, deletion was confirmed,and my playlist total went down by 1. I then scrolled through the playlist again, and yet the video was still in it. I deleted it again, total went down by 1 (again), yet video was still there (and playable).

Sorry you didn’t get a reply, we did receive your email and tested it here but couldn’t replicate the problem you were having. Perhaps if you could tell us some more details in an email to ps-problems@vidzone.tv like how many videos are in the playlist of yours as this may be the issue.

This is my VidZone experience at the moment. Load in a playlist. Skip first track watch add, skip next track, watch add, skip next track watch ad. Argh! The ads shouldn’t come up until I’ve watched at least some of a video. I shouldn’t have to watch more ads than music videos – should I? Why is it not possible to skip through the tracks in a playlist to get to my favourite one, WITHOUT the ads! Show me an ad after I’ve watched several whole tracks. Better still, give me a subscription service where I pay £5 a month for add-free access! (Please?)

This is a bug that we are very close to coming up with a fix for. We do apologise greatly for this as we know this can become extremely annoying to all of you. Please bear with us and we will have some good news soon.

I hope the GUI overhaul comes sooner rather than later, I can’t bring myself to actually use the program as it is at the moment, which probably means I’m missing out on some great vids but I just can’t stand the current GUI.

Hopefully a big blog post ill be made when you finally upgrade it so that I (and no doubt others) will know when they can start using the program again.

Also keep rolling out to other countries, I know I’m complaining about the interface but there are others who I’m sure would put up with it if they only had the program in the first place!

Hey guy, just wan’t say I’m loving VidZone! I know you’re fixing the problem without video-adverts and giving a 16:9 display, but I was wondering why my non-video-adverts are just appearing as white blocks? I don’t know whether it’s just me so you could know about it but in case you don’t, there you go, any idea of how to fix it? And will we get HQ videos sometime in the future? Or would this feature be impossible to implement without starting from scratch?

quick loading. it takes ages for it to load up from the xmb.the interface is clunky and very difficult to follow for users who are not used to tech stuff. i know how to use it but casuals will get lost trying to use the service.

search function. please please please change it.

finally iron maiden songs.

do that ben and i will proclaim vidzone to be the greatest invention ever